Re: [Dev-C++] What is wrong with this code?

Backslash is a special character in C strings, so to use an actual
backslash character you need to double it:

system("c:\\PTH.exe");

Surely sleep needs round brackets?

On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 12:40 AM, Heedle Blambeedle
<hee...@gm...> wrote:
> #include <iostream>
> #include <windows.h>
>
> using namespace std;
>
> int main()
> {
>     system("c:\PTH.exe");
>     sleep<15000>;
>     system("c:\BLACK.exe");
>     return 0;
> }
>
> returns the error upon compile:
>
> c:\documents and settings\\my
> documents\\projects\shutdown\shutdown\cpp.cpp(8) : warning C4129: 'P' :
> unrecognized character escape sequence
> c:\documents and settings\\my
> documents\\projects\shutdown\shutdown\cpp.cpp(9) : error C2065: 'sleep' :
> undeclared identifier
> c:\documents and settings\\my
> documents\\projects\shutdown\shutdown\cpp.cpp(9) : error C2059: syntax error
> : ';'
> c:\documents and settings\\my
> documents\\projects\shutdown\shutdown\cpp.cpp(10) : warning C4129: 'B' :
> unrecognized character escape sequence
>
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